The Lord of the Kings

For many years it has been fashionable to deny the historicity of the earlier periods of Old Testament history.

Unapologetic Christianity Chris Sinkinson

King David plays his harp in a church in Boulogne

In particular, the period of a united monarchy, Saul, Solomon and David, has been dismissed as the stuff of legend. While there has been circumstantial evidence for a centralised administration in the land of Judah and Israel there have been arguments over the dating of the various locations, and sceptical scholars could point to a lack of inscriptions with the names of such kings.

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